The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

When scientists look to the skies for clues about life's origins, water is one of the first things they seek. Life, as it's ...

Physics Professor Colin Hill and collaborators have released the clearest images to-date of the universe in its infancy.

A new study suggests that the first water molecules in the universe may have formed far earlier than previously assumed ...

Elusive black hole radiation predicted by Stephen Hawking may have influenced the way the universe took shape after the Big ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ancient and faraway galaxy that provides evidence that an ...

Scientists have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy. Astronomers from two separate research teams made the ...

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Astronomers may have discovered how water originated in the universe, challenging existing theories on star formation.

Astronomers discovered oxygen in the most distant known galaxy. This changes what we thought about how fast galaxies formed.

The recent detection of oxygen in the most distant known galaxy is making astronomers rethink how quickly galaxies formed ...